America (The forgotten Machu Picchu ; The mysterious giant pictures of Nazca ; Riches amidst poverty (Havana, Cuba) ; The prehistoric world of the Galapagos ; At the wells of Itza ; Where people became gods (Teotihuacán) ;The place where the clouds are born (Iguaçu Falls, Brazil) ; A lot of ice in Patagonia ; Highway to adventure (Pan-American Highway) ; Hawaii, land of fire from the belly of the earth ; Manhattan, the city of all cities ; The "thundering water" (Niagara Falls) ; The American Dead Sea (Great Salt Lake) ; The cliff dewllings of Mesa Verde ; Grand Canyon National Park ; The Golden Gate Bridge ; The mammoth trees of America (sequoias) ; Castle fit for a newspaper king (Hearst Castle: San Simeon, California) --

Asia (Mausoleum for a beloved wife (The Taj Mahal) ; Home of the gods (Mount Everest) ; India's Seven Pagodas (The temples of Mahabalipuram) ; Thousand and one nights in Lahore (Pakistan) ; The palace of the Dalai Lama (Lhasa, Tibet) ; The Great Wall of China ; A glimpse of the Forbidden City (Beijing, China) ; China's clay army (Xian); The holy peak of Mount Fuji (Japan) ; Old imperial city of Kyoto (Japan) ; The forbidden city of the Vietnamese emperors in Hue ; The beauty of Angkor Wat (Cambodia) ; Where the Emerald Buddha changes his raiment (Bankok, Thailand) ; Java's temple of the many Buddhas (Borobudur, Java) ; Samarkand : the paradise of the Orient (Uzbekistan) ; Arabia's first skyscrapers (Shibam, Yemen) ; Sanʻaʻ is still the "pearl of Arabia" (Yemen) ; Mecca's most sacred shrine (Kaaba, Mecca, Saudi Arabia) ; The second wonder of Ephesus (Turkey); --

The white beauty of Pamukkale (Turkey) ; The pillars of Baalbek (Syria) ; Damascus the paradise (Syria) ; Trail's end for the caravans (Aleppo, Syria) ; Jerusalem, the Holy city ; The Dead Sea or the Sea of Lot ; Petra: city of rock of the Nabataean kings (Jordan)) -- Australia (Australia's red heart (Uluru, or Ayers Rock); Sydney's graceful shells (Sydney Opera House) ; The coral world of the Great Barrier Reef) --

Dimensions

35 cm.

Extent

207 p.

Isbn

9781577172000

Other physical details

col. ill., col. maps

System control number

ocm50136520

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100 wonders of the world : the finest treasures of civilization and nature on five continents, [English text by Stephen Challacombe based on a translation by John N. Kraay]

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